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Comment Re:Generation Gap? (Score 2) 209

If anything people were less honest. In the 1950s lots of crimes went totally unreported and still their crime rates where rather high. Physical, mental or sexual abuse of family members was very often unreported. In most states a wife could not even report a rape by her husband as no such crime existed.

The homicide rate today for the USA is lower than it was in 1960.

Citation needed

Comment Re:A great vehicle for a few who are interested (Score 1) 201

Next time, read at least some of the article.

And go see in in person. I have one, and I am fat. 110 kilo naked. I still have had room my laptop bag, my gymbag and some groceries. It is only in the most warm days of summer that I get sweatty when riding to work, probably because I dress lighter than other modes of transportation would. And no, I do not freeze either, the shell protects me from the wind, the cold and the rain. I ride in t-shirt well into October.

Comment Re:CycleStreets is often better (Score 2) 62

CycleStreets ... gives a choice of three routes (fast, balanced, quiet)

http://www.openrouteservice.org/ gives 5 choices:

  • Shortest Track
  • Mountainbike
  • Racer
  • safest track
  • prefered cycleway

But I am still missing these, some in sliders and not just on/off.

  • no obstacles
  • cargo bike/trailer
  • velomobile
  • many street lights
  • no hills
  • no (red) lights

Comment Re:My WTF, explained (Score 1) 146

What's decidedly unclear from the summary: they're sequencing fetal cells found in the mother's blood. It was separated from the mother's own blood cells with a nify trick using the father's DNA.

What if the man the woman says is the father is not the father?

Comment Re:Busy databases (Score 1) 464

If you need 5000 IOPS on a disk volume, are you going to directly attach dozens of disks to a single server? I doubt it. Directly-attached storage is nice, but apps have an IOPS requirement, and SANs make satisfying those requirements more straightforward, and no reduction in latency will make your random seeks faster.

I would buy SSD, but should I stick to HDD, then Supermicro has some nice 2U boxes with 12x 3,5" or 24x 2,5" and 4U boxes with 36x 3,5" or 72x 2,5" there is therefore plenty of space to satisfy IOPS requirements. These boxes can even be supplied with a dummy power on card and then you can use SAS to plug it into a single server.

I would also prefer picking a shared kernel based (linux-vserver, openVZ, jail(), ... ) virtualization technology over a virtual machine based (Xen, KVM, vmware, ...). Simply to get higher IO speed.

Comment Re:gotta have a night light server (Score 1) 464

competent vm admins time delay the boot of all vms to prevent that.

And competent physical box admins delay the boot of some physical boxes to boot in the correct order and to avoid overloading UPSes and fuseboxes. Like booting up the SAN box before the VM box so the VM box can actually read data from the SAN box and does not have to wait.

Comment Re:Why are we still using passwords? (Score 1) 245

The only way a token card is useful for an impostor is by stealing it, and using it before it's reported stolen. So in most ways, it's a step up from a one-time-pad, and a mile up from the typical US security of no "something you have" component at all.

No, you could also break into RSA and steal the SecurID codes like it was done here: http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/10/12/0051220/rsa-blames-nation-state-for-cyber-attack

Comment Re:Why are we still using passwords? (Score 1) 245

They replaced it with a code generating card a while ago, for improved security (no one can make a copy of a code that's not generated yet).

yes, people can "copy" a code that is not generated yet if the method of generating the code is known. Like a pseudo random number generator that given the same input always will return the same output.

Comment Re:fsck speed, want safety (Score 2) 196

We're in the process of installing a 700TB array with a 1.5PB tape library backup. You just have to do the backups using filesystem snapshots and run them pretty much constantly.

And XFS is pretty brilliant for taking filesystem snapshots. Using the command xfs_freeze you can make good snapshots of XFS in what appears to have no downtime at all see XFS manpage like http://linux.die.net/man/8/xfs_freeze
And then run these commands:

xfs_freeze -f /mount/point && block_level_snapshot && xfs_freeze -u /mount/point

Last time I checked that did not work with EXT4.

Comment Re:USA against the World? (Score 1) 735

Now for just a moment, imagine this:
- China has created a settlement near your town/city and has claimed all of the fertile land as its own.
- In order to provide security for their settlement, they routinely patrol your town in military vehicles and set up checkpoints.

This reminds me of the situation in Tibet.

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